Notes and Queries, Number 167, January 8, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 167, January 8, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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The appearance of my account of this picture in your pages has been the
occasion of a very agreeable correspondence with the Editor of the
_Navorscher_ (the Dutch daughter of "N. & Q."). That gentleman has taken a
great interest in the subject, and has enabled me to decypher the mottoes
on the scrolls which run across the three pictures on the right-hand wall
of the room, which, in my former communication, I said I was unable to
read.
The scroll on the picture nearest the fireplace contains these words:
"Trouw moet blÿcken."
That on the second picture, noticed by CUTHBERT BEDE, is,
"Liefde boven al."
And the scroll on the third bears the inscription, as I stated in my former
communication,
"In Liefd' getrouwe;"
for so it ought to have been printed.
These, as the editor of the _Navorscher_ informs me, are the mottoes of
three Haarlem Societies of Rhetoricians called, 1. "De Pelicaen," whose
motto was, "_Trouw moet blÿcken_:" 2. "De Wyngaertrancken," whose motto
was, "_Liefde boven al_:" and, 3. "Witte Angiren," whose device was, "_In
Liefde getrouwe_."
I think you are entitled to have whatever information I may glean
respecting this picture, as you so kindly inserted my description of it in
your columns; and I have to thank you for procuring me the acquaintance and
correspondence of the editor of the _Navorscher_.
J. H. TODD, D.D.
Trin. Coll. Dublin.
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THE REPRINT, IN 1808, OF THE FIRST FOLIO EDITION OF SHAKSPEARE.
(Vol. vi., p. 579.)
In reply to the Query of VARRO, I beg to state that I possess the late Mr.
Upcott's collation of the reprint of the first folio edition of Shakspeare.
It consists of twenty-six folio leaves, exclusive of the fly-leaves, on the
first of which occur the following notes in the handwriting of the
collator:
"London Institution,
"Moorfields, Dec. 25, 1821.
"Four months and twenty-three days were occupied, during my leisure
moments, at the suggestion of our late Librarian, Professor Porson, in
reading and comparing the _pretended_ reprinted fac-simile _First_
Edition of Shakspeare with the original First Edition of 1623. With
what _accuracy_ it passed through the Press, the following pages,
noticing 368 typographical errors, will sufficiently show.
WM. UPCOTT."
"MS. note written in Mr. Dawson Turner's transcript of these errors in
the reprint of Shakspeare, edit. 1623.
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